The Boy Who Could Fly is a 1986 film directed and written by Nick Castle.

Amelia "Milly" Michaelson and her family has had a tough year. The father of the family had passed away, causing them to move to a new neighborhood. Milly and her brother Louis have a rough time adjusting to their new schools and their mother's return to the workforce has her working with a computer that she can't figure out.

Milly soon meets her neighbor Eric, an autistic young man living with an alcoholic uncle named Hugo. He never socializes with others, hasn't spoken at all, and sometimes raises his arms in the air to pretend to be an airplane, since his parents died in a plane crash. As soon as the two meet, Eric and Milly warm up to each other and become fast friends. However, with Hugo's alcoholism and Eric's strange behavior, Eric could be taken away to a hospital at any moment. Furthermore, a couple of strange incidents makes Milly start to believe that Eric might really have the ability to fly...

This film has examples of:

Alcoholic Parent: Uncle Hugo is Eric's guardian, but he constantly drinks and this has caused him to lose guardianship over Eric a couple of times.

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